Quick Add RSS Feed to Google Trick
Many people have a custom Google homepage or use Google reader to read RSS feeds. There is a really quick and easy trick to allow your users to click on a link and be provided with the option to add your RSS feed to their Google homepage or Google Reader.
So, if you were to click on http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyCupOfTech (Go ahead! Do it! You know you want to!), you would be provided with the option to add the Daily Cup of Tech RSS feed to your Google homepage or Google Reader. To configure this for your own RSS feed simply use the following URL:
http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=<Your RSS Feed URL>
and replace <Your RSS Feed URL>
2 Responses to “Quick Add RSS Feed to Google Trick”
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Rarst Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 9:46 amNice if you want separate button for google… But feedburner feeds already offer links for bunch of RSS readers with BrowserFriendly feature.
On other hand about half of my subscribers use Google reader. Might be worth concentrating on it a bit if it’s that popular.
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Chris Lang Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 amWhat is interesting is that Scoble predicted Google Reader would be a social bookmarking application in 2006.
You can now add friends to your friends list, share feed items, bookmark single blog posts from blogs that you read on the web and here’s the kicker, there is now a blog recommendation engine that recommends blogs you do not read by what your friends list is subscribed to in their Google Readers.
Then, everything you share and bookmark in Google Reader of course comes up on your Google shared items page linked to by your Google profile.
What really blew me away was the recommendation engine. If you add as many of your email list subscribers as you can to your Google Reader you can get a real good idea of what other blogs your subscribers are reading.
The links in your shared items are all HTML and fully followed so every time one of your RSS subscribers shares a blog post it is creating incoming links to your site.
Better yet, it uses the exact blog post title you wrote so now your links use your keyword phrases and bookmarkers can’t change your title tag.
After talking to my SEO top dog contacts, they were all floored and assured me this is the new SEO tactic that no one knows about.
http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=136
It is kind of hard to add friends, the easiest way is to send a chat invite from Gmail and then email your contact you want to friend and have them email you back. It seems Google wants a two way conversation before they will allow you to become mutual friends.
If you would like to friend me, add chrislang at gmail.com to your Google Gmail chat and send me an email letting me know so I can return an email to you, thereby creating a two way connection in Google.
Google is quietly rolling this out behind the scenes but it is a full blown social bookmarking application and the blog recommendation engine is the new blog marketing strategy.
One thing I have not quite figured out is if using FeedBurner now hurts you since the links point at the FeedBurner redirect rather than your site like a WordPress feed does.
